Ravi Patel (a National Institute for Health and Care Research Academic Clinical Fellow Orthopaedic Trainee) from Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital used Ignition funding to conduct patient, carer and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) activities, collaborate with …
Following our eighth round of Ignition Fund awards we have provided general feedback for those who were unsuccessful.
The Institute for Employment Research (IER) with Chris Warhurst as the Principal Investigator was awarded Vivensa Academy Ignition funding to look into one of the biggest pressures facing health and care services in the UK: delayed hospital discharge. This happens when someone is medically ready to leave hospital but cannot return home or move into the right care setting straight away.
Following our sixth round of Ignition Fund awards we have provided general feedback for those who were unsuccessful.
Dr Susanne Arnold explains how she used an Ignition Fund award to undertake meaningful Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) to support an NIHR Post-Doctoral Fellowship application.
Following our sixth round of Ignition Fund awards we have provided general feedback for those who were unsuccessful.
Dr Jennifer Stephenson is a Clinical Academic Pharmacist at King’s College London, specialising in geriatrics. Her research aims to improve outcomes for older adults through safer and more effective medication use. In this article she explains how she used an Ignition Fund award to develop her research skills by attending the Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods Summer School at King’s College London.
Following our fifth round of Ignition Fund awards we have provided general feedback for those who were unsuccessful.
Dr David Henderson is a Quantitative Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Here he explains how he used his Ignition Fund award to undertake a three-week visit to the Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm in September 2025.
Dr Grace Pearson is a Clinical Lecturer in Ageing Education at the University of Bristol Medical School and a Specialty Doctor in Geriatric Medicine at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. She was recently awarded Ignition funding to undertake a travel fellowship to Australia and New Zealand.
Dr Mark Ross was among our first Ignition Fund awardees in 2024 and used the funding to undertake a secondment to the University of Birmingham to learn how to isolate immune cells from muscle tissue.
Aphrodite Eshetu from UCL describes co-chairing a Special Interest Group (SIG) session focused on ageism and autism.